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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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4. To the same.

That a fair Face, might beauty keep alive;
The curious Pencil, helps it to survive.
I though a stranger, to the Limners Trade;
To keep your Fame alive, in Verse essay'd:
Although Apelles Pencil, one Divine,
Should Draw: Apollo's Verses her enshrine.